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Ari Zilka on RAM is the New Disk & BigMemory

Topics
Operations,
Clustering & Caching,
Java,
Deployment / Datacenter,
Performance & Scalability

Terracotta creator Ari Zilka talks about about the RAM is the new disk and argues for scaling up before scaling out, comparing the architectural approaches of lots of VMs with small heaps vs. a few JVMs with very large heaps. Ari introduces BigMemory, a Java add-on to Enterprise Ehcache, which allows app designs with huge amounts of memory accessible in-process, with minimal garbage collection.

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The Future of Terracotta after Its Acquisition by Software AG

Topics
Acquisitions,
Clustering & Caching,
Java

Software AG, one of the leaders in the SOA and BPM market acquired San Francisco based Terracotta that is behind prominent open source products such as EhCache, Big Memory and Quartz. Terracotta products fill in the application performance and scalability needs for cloud based offerings from Software AG. In this article, InfoQ talks to Ari Zilka regarding the future of this acquisition.

Terracotta's BigMemory Aiming to Eliminate Garbage Collection for Java Caches

Topics
Clustering & Caching,
Java,
Performance & Scalability

Terracotta's BigMemory for Enterprise Ehcache product aims to by-pass Garbage Collection for objects held in the cache. InfoQ spoke to Amit Pandey, Chief Executive Officer at Terracotta, to find out more about the product.

Ehcache 2.2 Supports Terabyte Cache and LDAP Authentication

Topics
Announcements,
Clustering & Caching,
Java

The latest version of open source caching framework Ehcache supports terabyte cache and JAAS authentication with LDAP integration. Terracotta announced last week the general availability of Ehcache 2.2 version as part of Terracotta 3.3 release. The new version also includes a management console that provides visibility and control of run-time caching environment, for developers and operators.

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Implementing Master-Worker with Terracotta

Topics
Clustering & Caching,
Java,
Performance & Scalability

A real world case study of a consultancy that distributed the load & increased scalability of its applications using Terracotta using the Master/Worker pattern.

Web Applications with Spring Web Flow and Terracotta for Spring

Topics
Clustering & Caching,
Java,
Web Frameworks

In this article we will first give you an overview of Spring Web Flow and Terracotta for Spring, and after that show you how you can use these technologies together to enter a new dimension in writing stateful, conversational, scalable and highly available web applications.

Presentations about Terracotta

Scaling Australia's Most Popular Online News Sites with Ehcache

Topics
Clustering & Caching,
Java,
Performance & Scalability

Matthias Matook and Ari Zilka share the real-world experience of implementing Enterprise Ehcache at Australia's most visited online news sites. The talk will focus on the challenges and technical solutions to deal with massive page hits, high concurrency and how to achieve linear scalability without additional hardware.

Scaling Your Cache & Caching at Scale

Topics
Java,
Architecture,
Performance & Scalability

Alex Miller explains shortly why caching is useful, followed by examples of typical difficulties encountered when setting up a cache, like large datasets, data eviction, stale data, replication, loading, duplication. Miller also discusses available choices for designing a distributed caching architecture, and ways to test a cache for performance.

Interviews about Terracotta

Ari Zilka on Terracotta, Clustering and Open Source

Topics
Clustering & Caching,
Java,
Performance & Scalability

Ari Zilka, co-founder and CTO of Terracotta, talks about the capabilities of Terracotta, the use cases it supports, and the rationale and impact of taking Terracotta to an open source model.